The Role of Manuscript Newsletters in Charles II's Performance of Power

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dc.contributor.authorKeating, Erin M.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-11T14:55:26Z
dc.date.available2018-07-11T14:55:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.submitted2018-07-11T13:17:49Zen
dc.description.abstract“The Role of Manuscript Newsletters in Charles II’s Performance of Power” argues that manuscript newsletters written out of England’s Secretary of State’s offices in the 1670s contributed to the political representation of Charles II as a monarch who was accessible to his subjects. Bringing Jacques Derrida’s theory of supplementarity and Joseph Roach’s work on celebrity to bear on these historical documents reveals the affective importance of the newsletter medium and offers another way to understand the medium alongside their more traditional role as precursors/companions to printed news. By tracing the ways that the official manuscript newsletters acted as gossip, created the semblance of a politically elite readership, and acted metonymically, standing in for the physical body of the king, I argue that they were part of a larger political strategy whose aim was to create an illusion of intimacy between Charles and his subjects.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC Insight Development Grant program, University of Manitoba's University Research Grant Program and New Faculty Start-Up Fundingen_US
dc.identifier.citationKeating, Erin M. "The Role of Manuscript Newsletters in Charles II's Performance of Power." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 33-51.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0162-9905
dc.identifier.other1941-952X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/33123
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Marylanden_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectCharles IIen_US
dc.subjectRestoration historyen_US
dc.subjectmanuscript newslettersen_US
dc.subjectgossipen_US
dc.subjectRestoration politicsen_US
dc.subjectaffecten_US
dc.titleThe Role of Manuscript Newsletters in Charles II's Performance of Poweren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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